Smith’s Report, no. 190

Against Hollywoodism, Revisionism

by Robert Faurisson

On February 2, 2012, Tehran hosted the second “Conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema” as part of the 2012 Fajr International Film Festival. President Ahmadinejad presented Robert Faurisson with an award at the conference and met with him in private.

The term Hollywoodism refers to the trans-formation, often mendacious, of reality by the spirit and practices of a whole sphere of American cinema. At first, I shall discuss the evil in general done by Hollywoodism. Secondly, I shall describe the wrongs of Holly-woodism in the shaping of the imposture of “the Holocaust,” that is, in building the myth of genocide, gas chambers, and six million Jews killed by the Germans during the Second World War. Finally, in a third and last part I shall speak of Revisionism as the antidote par excellence to Hollywoodism and its incessant, aggressive publicity for the religion of “the Holocaust.”

1. Hollywoodism and the evil that it does.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, “Hollywood” may signify “the US film industry” but also “a flashy, vulgar atmos-phere or tone, held to be associated with the US film industry.” Used as an adjective, the word stands for “the US film industry,” as in “a Hollywood movie,” “a Hollywood producer,” or means “flashy and vulgar,” as in the dictionary’s illustrative sentence “Flashy and vulgar, their clothes were pure Hollywood.”

A well-known facet of the ideology propagated by this film industry is the basic division of the world between the Good and the Bad. The Good are the United States and the Bad are those whom the United States decrees as such. The Good are fundamentally Good and the Bad are fundamentally Bad. The United States is always in the right and always wins, whilst the “Bad Guys” are always in the wrong and always lose. Thus there cannot, there must not be any pity for the vanquished: their defeat proves that they were indeed criminals. The winners will independently assume the right to try the vanquished in court or to have them put on trial by others….

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